With its original introduction, GNTTAB_cache_flush was made available
uniformly. XSA-232 (CVE-2017-14318) then covered an omitted NULL
pointer check, yet the addition of that check failed to adjust the
subsequent error path. That error path fails to drop a page reference in
case the specified page is owned by a special system domain (DOM_IO and
DOM_COW are system domains which can have memory pages assigned to them.)
Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-6571-1 xen security update
Fixes

Solution

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Workaround

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History

Wed, 14 Oct 2026 01:45:00 +0000

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First Time appeared Xen
Xen xen
Vendors & Products Xen
Xen xen

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 20:00:00 +0000

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Weaknesses CWE-401
CWE-773

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 17:30:00 +0000

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References

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Description With its original introduction, GNTTAB_cache_flush was made available uniformly. XSA-232 (CVE-2017-14318) then covered an omitted NULL pointer check, yet the addition of that check failed to adjust the subsequent error path. That error path fails to drop a page reference in case the specified page is owned by a special system domain (DOM_IO and DOM_COW are system domains which can have memory pages assigned to them.)
Title gnttab: cache-flush handling may cause page reference leak
References

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: XEN

Published:

Updated: 2026-10-13T16:11:54.099Z

Reserved: 2026-09-29T16:11:40.973Z

Link: CVE-2026-102700

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2026-10-13T16:17:09.623

Modified: 2026-10-14T16:10:14.750

Link: CVE-2026-102700

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-10-14T01:30:13Z

Weaknesses